The year is 1987, and NASA launches the
last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap,
Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William "Buck" Rogers,
are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his
life support systems, and returns Buck Rogers to Earth, 500 years
later.

Theme Music

Composed by: Stu Phillips

STORYLINE

The character Buck Rogers was actually created in 1928 by Philip
Francis Nowlan and was featured in the comics and a feature film.
In 1979 a for TV movie was made but it was released in theaters
as a test. It did remarkably well so the producers made it into a
weekly series.

Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard) is a 1980s astronaut who is accidental
frozen and returned to Earth 500 years later in the year 2491.
Earth has recovered from a devastating nuclear war and Rogers
unique twentieth century skills are utilized by the Earth Defense
Directorate. Teamed up with Col. Wilma Deering (Erin Gray) and
Twiki (Felix Silla/Mel Blanc) a 25th century mini robot they
fight off attacks by the Draconian Empire. They got their orders
from Dr. Elias Huer (Tim O'Connor) and were aided by Dr.
Theopolis or "Theo" (voiced by Eric Server) who was a
computer shaped liked a disk and carried around by Twiki. The
chief antagonist was Princess Ardala (Pamela Hensley) who was the
leader of the Draconians. She also had the hots for Rogers and
was always trying to coerce him into marrying her.

In the second season the studio scrapped the whole evil
Draconians thing and sent our fearless hero and troupe out in
space to explore the cosmos. The character Hawk (Thom
Christopher)was added as the last survivor of a proud bird like
race.

Video Clip of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

TRIVIA:

Having the same producer, Glen A Larson, wasn't the only
thing that Buck Rogers shared with Battle Star
Galactica. If you were watching closely many of the sets on
Buck Rogers were simply retooled Galactica
sets including some of the uniforms. The Terran starfighters were
originally supposed to be Colonial Vipers on Galactica
and were actually used as an advanced prototype Cylon fighter in
a couple of episodes. In season two Buck and the crew of the
Searcher were looking for the lost "tribes" of humanity
sound familiar? The remnants of humanity were searching for the
lost 13th tribe of humans on Galactica.